Is this the start of flowering?

[b8kd]

Hi Farm - Please take a look at the photo and let me know if this is the start of early flowering or just part of the veg process. What are the red little hairs? Thanks! B8KD

 

[dire wolf]

Congratulations it's a girl

 

[dire wolf]

Hi Farm - Please take a look at the photo and let me know if this is the start of early flowering or just part of the veg process. What are the red little hairs? Thanks! B8KD

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Yes it's flowering
Or pre flowering , what your light schedule ?

 

[BudBogart]

Yup, starting to flower.

 

[b8kd]

Yes it's flowering
Or pre flowering , what your light schedule ?

Outdoor. Bend, OR. Outdoor we’re currently at 14.5hrs of light but that includes dusk & dawn. Starting much earlier than I had planned. I hit them with a 1050 ppm feeding day before yesterday, higher than planned, but all eight of them hit about 1.5” of growth in 24 hrs. The tops are shooting up like crazy. But definite goodness cause my eight plants will hopefully finish up end of September or early October and it gets dicey in October with the weather. Thanks for the fast response. Y’all Farm members ROCK!!!! B8KD

 

[Phaleg]

I believe it is starting to flower as a female plant... those small barbs are normally white when they start, I see them darker, this is my only concern

 

[Greatlakes]

Yeah agreed... your pistils should be white not brown. Are you spraying your plants with something? If not I would worry that they got pollinated

 

[mandoVol]

Outdoor. Bend, OR. Outdoor we’re currently at 14.5hrs of light but that includes dusk & dawn. Starting much earlier than I had planned. I hit them with a 1050 ppm feeding day before yesterday, higher than planned, but all eight of them hit about 1.5” of growth in 24 hrs. The tops are shooting up like crazy. But definite goodness cause my eight plants will hopefully finish up end of September or early October and it gets dicey in October with the weather. Thanks for the fast response. Y’all Farm members ROCK!!!! B8KD

I’ve been a nervous wreck for all season because my two oldest we’re started in a tent and ran them at 18/6 until late May and started trying to sync them with Mother Nature. I got tired of hauling them in and out so I finally bit the bullet and put em out. I just took these when I saw your thread. I’m in Illinois.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

This looks like normal pre-flower to me. I'm betting you're in good shape.

 

[b8kd]

Yeah agreed... your pistils should be white not brown. Are you spraying your plants with something? If not I would worry that they got pollinated

Not concerned in the least and no I am not spraying my plants with anything. I have a friend that has a horticultural degree, three years commercial grow experience, and a whole lot of personal experience, that has been doing a little consulting on this grow for the last two months or so. I sent him the same pic last night and he agreed the plant is in pre-flower/flower. Today he dropped in to spend a couple hours looking at my plants and showing me how to prune in preparation for the start of flowering. We did two plants together and I'll finish the last six plants by myself. His take is that they look exactly how they are supposed to look right now. He was actually very impressed at how healthy they are looking. I was told some of the plants have red hairs like that and some have white. He said it's perfectly normal. Later dudes! b8kd